I help advanced learners move past rigid textbook speech and build a natural Mandarin Flow System. When I’m not coaching, you’ll find me writing, lost in a good book, tending to my garden, exploring sustainable living, or literally touching fish 摸鱼 (figuratively means: slacking off) by the pond.

Before moving to Europe, I coached HSK and spent over a decade navigating high-stakes corporate life in Shanghai and Beijing. So I’ve seen both sides of the language, I know the HSK system inside out, and I know what actually works in the real world.

Because I’m kind of camera-shy and prefer substance over noise, so you won’t find me doing flashy reels for algorithms. Instead, I write weekly playbooks on Substack to build your Mandarin Flow System that un-textbook your Mandarin layer by layer.